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Lust Drunk: Understanding Addiction and the LDS View of Agency
For a long time now, I’ve wanted to tackle addiction in the context of the LDS view of agency. Seems kind of important, doesn’t it? I’ve put it off, however, because as foundational as agency is to...
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Praying for Humility Instead of Strength
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always had a complicated relationship with Arnold Friberg. He’s the fellow who painted all those colorful images of prophets and missionaries that the Church has used...
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Sitting in a Rowboat eBook Now Available for Kindle!
Good news! Sitting in a Rowboat Throwing Marbles at a Battleship, the book that has changed the way Mormons talk about addiction and the porn problem, is now available as an instant download ebook in...
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[**UPDATE – Mar 12, 2015 – Problem solved.] I’ve received a number of emails from people wondering what the deal is with the paperback edition of Sitting in a Rowboat Throwing Marbles at a Battleship....
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A Fender Bender and a Chance to Experience the 10th Step
Step Ten: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it (from the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous). A few weeks ago, I had a chance to work the 10th Step...
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A Quick Reprise of the Addiction Definition
I need to a clear addiction definition to stay alive. Hi! Happy 2015! If you’re new to the website, welcome. I’ll hope you’ll keep coming back. Addicts are masters of the ol’ bob and weave–dodging the...
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Fifty Shades of Grey, But Only Two Shades of Lust
A Mormon sex addict in recovery considers the phenomenon behind the bestselling book and the new movie, Fifty Shades of Grey. So the movie Fifty Shades of Grey comes out this weekend. I read in Time...
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Giving a Buck to a Beggar
And you thought my problem was porn! The other day, I ran across a description of the typical alcoholic. I tweaked it a bit to apply to me, a sex addict. Here it is: Characteristic of the so-called...
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There Is No Siren or Flashing Red Light When You Become an Addict
9 Points that Will Surprise Mormon Porn Addicts Dear Friend: Your wife asked me to write this letter to you. I don’t know you personally, but I know exactly who you are and how you think. You and I are...
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Top Five (or So) Lists of Who Shows Up at Sexaholics Anonymous Meetings (or...
Ever Heard of the Expression “Terminal Uniqueness”? So, one of the core tendencies of the addict mind is what I’ve heard referred to as “terminal uniqueness.” The words themselves make recovering...
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A Mormon Struggles With His Fourth Step Resentment List
Identifying resentments is a key to recovery. When I first worked on my Fourth Step (made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves) with my sponsor, it was an arduous slog. He was,...
View ArticleA Retirement of Sorts
I don’t plan to update rowboatandmarbles.org for the foreseeable future. You may have noticed that I’ve only posted one piece of new writing about addiction and recovery in 2016. In 2015, there were...
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